Linda Worsley was in Ukraine serving as a judge in a music competition as the World Trade Center tragedy unfolded.
Read her comments on the competition and her thoughts on events back in New York.

Linda has frequently been commissioned, by state arts councils and
private art patrons to create works for a variety of ensembles. Her
compositions for orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles have been
performed throughout the United States, and in Belgium, Germany,
Italy, and the Ukraine.

A native Californian, she received her early musical training from
composer Oscar Rasbach, and later earned a BA and MA in composition.
Her principal university composition teacher was Leon Dallin. In the
world of music publishing, Linda has served on the music staff of both
Silver Burdett Ginn and McGraw-Hill, where she has contributed to
their music textbooks as a writer, editor, and composer/arranger.

She is renowned for her skill at producing recordings, and has
created over a hundred and twenty CDs covering
every style of music. She creates the recordings for
IDEAS products,
and writes many of the original instrumental pieces, songs, and
arrangements for those projects. She has produced thousands of
recordings for publishers, including McGraw-Hill, Silver Burdett Ginn,
Shawnee Press, and for individual composers and performers.

Her music has been published and distributed in America by
McGraw-Hill, Silver Burdett Ginn, Hal Leonard, Shawnee Press and
IDEAS,
and in Europe by MusicFabrik. She has scored several films, including
theshort film, "The Rescue of Autumn," and the feature
film, The Pink House. She is currently
working on several commissions and other original works.